HBO seems to be clearing house before the new year with word that they've cancelled three of its comedic dramas while giving a renewal to another.

The Laura Dern-led "Enlightened", which earned two Golden Globe nominations last week for best comedy series and best actress, has been renewed for a second season. Reviews have been strong but ratings have been rather dire, however the cabler is a network where ratings are rarely a deciding factor.

The network has also nixed the NY fashion scene-set "How To Make It In America" after two seasons. "Hung" was the highest rater of the four and Thomas Jane scored a second Golden Globe nomination last week for his work in it.
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HBO seems to be clearing house before the new year with word that they've cancelled three of its comedic dramas while giving a renewal to another.

The Laura Dern-led "Enlightened", which earned two Golden Globe nominations last week for best comedy series and best actress, has been renewed for a second season. Reviews have been strong but ratings have been rather dire, however the cabler is a network where ratings are rarely a deciding factor.

The network has also nixed the NY fashion scene-set "How To Make It In America" after two seasons. "Hung" was the highest rater of the four and Thomas Jane scored a second Golden Globe nomination last week for his work in it.
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This spring, winter won’t be the only thing coming to HBO. In addition to season 2 of Game of Thrones, the network will debut the vice presidential comedy Veep, from the creator of In the Loop, as well as a new take on the single-girl-in-the-city story with Girls, which is being described as the anti-Sex and the City.

In the trailer entitled ‘A Different Spin’ we are introduced to the second most powerful person in the world – and apparently it’s not exactly a thrill-a-minute position. Veep comes from Armando Iannucci, the creator of the hit BBC comedy The Thick of It and its pseudo follow-up, the 2009 theatrical release In the Loop.

While one might be hard pressed to find a significant amount of American viewers that have watched (or even ...

Starz has revealed a bunch of promotional artwork and new stills, a high-profile new Facebook app, and a four-minute clip showing off the opening scene from their upcoming second season of the network's biggest series - the blood and sex-fueled "Spartacus".

Netflix has given a thirteen episode order for the new Eli Roth-produced horror series "Hemlock Grove," based on an upcoming Brian McGreevy novel. The series "re-imagines everything it means to be a monster as reflected in the struggle to be human".

This marks the fourth series the streaming giant is exclusively producing, following on from David Fincher's "House of Cards," Jenji Kohan's "Orange is the
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In addition to "Game of Thrones," which HBO has already started previewing, the cable channel will roll out two more new series in the spring. HBO unveiled the first looks at its comedies "Veep" and "Girls" over the weekend.

"Veep" stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the vice president of the United States, who's a mere heartbeat away from being the leader of the free world. As the wordless promo for the series shows, however, it's not always a thrill a minute in the VP's office.

"Veep" was created by Armando Ianucci, who also created the brilliant BBC political comedy "The Thick of It." Here's hoping his humor translates to the American political system.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has dismissed speculation that her character in Veep is a parody of Sarah Palin. The Seinfeld actress plays Selina Meyer in the HBO show, a senator from Maryland-turned-vice president. "This is in no way a parody of [Sarah Palin] or any other female politician," Louis-Dreyfus told Capitol File. "You will never know what party she's in. There's talk of the opposition and that party and this party, but it is never identified. So this is not a partisan politics show in any way. "What it is, though, is a show about political behaviour. And that is where the comedy comes from. The right thing happens for the (more)
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Since news broke last week that Netflix officially picked up Arrested Development for a 2013 run, fans have been taking a victory lap around the Internet that the five-year will-they-or-won’t-they revival roller coaster appears to be finished once and for all. EW landed an exclusive chat with Buster Bluth himself, a.k.a. Tony Hale. Of the long wait for Arrested’s return, Hale laughed, “In this situation, Buster would have been in the hospital medicated.” What else did Hale have to say about everyone’s favorite seal-phobic, over-educated MotherBoy? Will Lucille 2 (Liza Minnelli) return? And what was Hale’s favorite Buster moment so far?
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HBO has released a new promo, teasing its slate for the upcoming fall/winter season. Aside from the movie Game Change and the series Veep, look for Nick Nolte and Dustin Hoffman to star in Luck, while Kenny Powers and his absurd antics anchor another run of Eastbound & Down.

The Irish Technology Leadership Group launched its Hollywood chapter tonight with an event at Sony Pictures Studios that included a panel discussion among execs from companies such as HBO, Warner Bros and BBC Worldwide. Panelists at Innovation in Entertainment, as the evening was billed, discussed the new ways people consume entertainment, how much they’re willing to pay for it (increasingly, that amount is nothing, one said), and whether they’ve even caught up to all the technology out there. The future is in knowing how to pitch and make the right product at the right time and place, said Jay Roewe, HBO’s Svp West Coast production. “Computer programmers that understand the film biz — that’s the kind of people I want to work with because I know I’m going to adapt to the future in a very big way,” Roewe said. One example of HBO embracing technology
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The creator of The Thick of It tells Dan Sabbagh how being online has boosted his credibility and why he's gone beyond the BBC – despite being ready to man the barricades to save its digital channels

Armando Iannucci, comedy all-rounder, is pretty clear what he thinks about the BBC – saying that he will "man the barricades" in support of a corporation that has commissioned so many of his programmes, from I'm Alan Partridge to The Thick of It.

Yet, curiously, after several years embedded in a comedy unit inside the corporation, and a shorter spell as a freelance while his Anglo-American film In the Loop was coming together, Iannucci has moved beyond the BBC's orbit. He has a new job, working for an independent producer, Baby Cow, as chief creative officer, and reckons that when it comes to comedy at least "the ecology is healthy", or to put it another way,
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We reported on it weeks ago, but it was made official yesterday: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotilliard will be joining the cast of "The Dark Knight Rises." And if it wasn't for Twitter, we'd have no idea how meta this casting really was.

According to the James Cameron blockbuster "The Terminator," the artificial intelligence in the Skynet program went live yesterday, which means that our inevitable destruction is just hours away! Since we're all about to die, you might as well read a few predictions for what might be in store for the robot apocalypse.

And a beautiful actress talks about filming love scenes! We won't give it away, but it involves lots and lots of high fives.

I'm @TravisHelwig and this Twitter-Wood for April 20th, 2011.

@OliviaWilde best part about filming a love scene? the high fives from the crew after each take. don't wish that happened in real life?
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The success of In The Loop was gratifying to those here in the UK who have watched with splits sides in an atmosphere of air turned blue by Iannucci’s impeccable body of work.

Beginning for me with his work with Chris Morris and the On the Hour (later The Day Today) team, through the often overlooked Armistice series, via the curious terror of Alan Partridge and onto The Thick of It, Iannucci is one of Britain foremost comic writers and directors. All of which is scant preamble to the excellent news that Iannucci’s follow up to In The Loop will be a political comedy series for HBO entitled Veep based on a Senator who becomes Vice President and today news came that Julia-Louis Dreyfus will play the leading role of Selina Meyer.

Loop fans will note the return of Anna Chlumsky, who will play Meyer’s Chief of
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In the build up to the 2012 election, HBO continues to pour out politically themed films, mini-series and now comedies. The cable network has announced it will begin production on the new sitcom Veep starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

In Veep, Louis-Dreyfus will play Selina Meyer, a former senator who swiftly finds that the job of Vice President isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sitting just a stone’s throw away from the presidency, Meyer comes to the realization that the warnings she received prior to accepting the gig were right on the money.

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